Our hearts are burdened for you today,
Thinking of your dear ones, gone away;
They have preceded us for a while,
To join the angel rank and file.

We know you will miss them day by day,
For we, too, have gone that way;
Other hearts your deep sorrow share,
Thus, in a degree, help you to bear,

The grievous burden laid at your door,
Making very heavy your hearts and sore;
Still behind the great unknown,
God is always watching over His own.

--- Chas. M. Armstrong.